Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler: Recent submissions

  • The role of the military in democratization processes: The cases of Egypt and Tunisia 
    Küçük, Ömer Naim. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Why do some militaries allow institutionalization of democratic reforms, whereas others disrupt them? By process-tracing the critical processes in Tunisia and Egypt, this research examines why the Egyptian military ...
  • Nezihe Muhiddin: |bir Osmanlı-Türk kadın hakları savunucusu 
    Zihnioğlu, Yaprak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    Bu çalışmada, Nezihe Muhiddin'in düşünceleri ve etkinlikleri incelenerek, ülkemizde 1934'de kadınlara siyasal hakların Kemalistler tarafindan verilmesinden önce, kadınların siyasal haklarını almak üzere harekete geçtikleri ...
  • A methodological critique of studies on multicultural policies and sociocultural integration 
    Morrison, Mitchell Max. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    A contentious debate over migration in Europe has emerged in recent years, with a significant amount of attention focusing on the perceived lack of immigrant integration into the receiving host countries’ societies. This ...
  • The politics of the Olympics: The case of the Sochi 2014 winter games 
    Karasaç, Ayşe. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study aims to analyze the political aspects of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics that were held in the Russian Federation after many protests and controversies. The analysis of the Sochi case contributes to our ...
  • Rethinking urban transformation and contested spaces: The case of Diyarbakı 
    Bakan, Ronay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The literature on contentious politics tends to explain the dynamics of collective political struggle on the ground of sequential events in national and international politics. This time-centered perspective in contentious ...
  • Surviving tribes as political actors: The evolution of political clientelism in Şanlıurfa 
    Akbıyık, Ahmet Utku. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Tribes have been important political actors throughout the history of southeastern Turkey. What are the tools that tribe leaders still utilize to protect their scope of influence within the southeastern region of Turkey? ...
  • The politics of rap: Rap music as a tool for expressing exclusion in Istanbul 
    Mişe, Umut. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In Istanbul, in the neighborhoods where there are problems such as poverty, discrimination and exclusion with the effect of urbanization, globalization and neoliberalism, young people who suffer from these problems use ...
  • Political football: Making football fandom a symbol of political dissent 
    İncedere, Kamile Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study aims to examine the role and effects of politicization of football fandom in the Gezi Movement, which was the biggest social upheaval of Turkish political history in the 2000s. This movement brought a lot of ...
  • The expansion of neoliberalism in Turkey: The case of the Mass Housing Development Administration 
    İspir, Kerem Mert. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The neoliberal transformation in Turkey’s housing market and urban economy creates a legal and institutional framework that accelerates the commodification of land, and construction-based economy. This thesis illustrates ...
  • Threatening security: Conflicting conceptualizations of security during the Gezi Park protests 
    Güngör, Mustafa Utku. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    18 days of resistance against the destruction of Gezi Park at the heart of Istanbul opened up a new phase for the public political debate in Turkey. For a while, neither the government and its supporters nor separate ...
  • Political liberalism and religious discourses: An evaluation of the asymmetry objection 
    Mutaf, İbrahim Çağrı. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    John Rawls’ Political Liberalism (2005) addresses the question of enduring plurality of conflicting worldviews within societies under democratic regimes. As a theory of justification, political liberalism excludes religious ...
  • The politics of religion: State policy towards muslims in Post-Soviet Russia 
    İltekin, Sümeyye Mine. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis analyzes the state’s Muslim policy in post-Soviet Russia with a focus on Putin period. The thesis aims to make a modest contribution to the analyses of the complicated relations between state and religion in ...
  • Nezihe Muhiddin: |an Ottoman Turkish women's rights defender 
    Zihnioğlu, Yaprak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    This thesis has attempted to show through a study of Nezihe Muhiddin and her works that women sought their political rights before they were granted them in 1934. It has long been claimed that women were given their rights ...
  • Rethinking independent cinema: Public funding, market oligopoly and the film industry in Turkey 
    Akkaya, Ercan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In the Turkish film industry, the term independent is mostly used for certain kinds of film to differentiate between mainstream films. Even though the terms independent and mainstream are used to refer to films’ positions ...
  • Social assistance in Turkey: an overview of seven social assistance and solidarity foundations 
    Zağralı Tunç, Fatma Nur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The main aim of the thesis is to scrutinize the coexistence of two different social assistance understandings in Turkey observed through the Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations (SYDV) of seven districts. On the ...
  • Guests who drowned: Legal ambiguities behind refugee vulnerabilities 
    Sağnıç, Şevin Gülfer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    In 2015, several thousands of Syrian refugees made the illegal journey from Izmir, Turkey to Western Europe – mainly to Sweden and Germany. This resulted in thousands of drownings in the Aegean Sea and, as many people ...
  • Systemic opposition under a tutelary regime: Reformist politics in the Iranian parliament (2000-2004) 
    Sykes, Patrick Joseph. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis asks how reformist politicians in Iran advance their interests in the face of resistance by the country’s tutelary institutions. It focuses on the Majlis (Parliament), because it sits at the intersection of the ...
  • The regeneration of poverty and exclusion after the Van earthquake 
    Eraydın, Seza. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis examines the failure of disaster management after the earthquake in Van, one of the poorest cities in the Kurdish region in Turkey. It evaluates the underlying reasons of failure and how,such failure affected ...
  • Neighborhood projects of education: the case of the Halkevi summer school in Okmeydanı 
    Murat, Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This study aims to analyze the effects of state violence in everyday life on an alternative education program. Halkevleri has organized free Summer Schools for children at their ages of primary and secondary schools in ...
  • The relationship between secularism and democracy: The case of Turkey in the 2000s 
    Şar, Edgar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis offers a detailed analysis of the relationship between secularism and democracy, with particular reference to the case of Turkey. At a time when secularism is often associated with states’ non-egalitarian and ...

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